Nothing against Tuohy, it seems that a sub 15 will not easily happen for her. Her form is getting worse, cannot kick at the end when running a faster pace. Looking at her past 5000m races, she has only ran 15:10s for three outings.
It's rare that this late in the season we get a runaway victor in the "Dumbest of Letsrun" posts but congrats you have taken the cake. Watching someone on the track after a long cross season in which the won a championship while slightly injured (running away from whomever you were rooting for) who then goes out and drops a 15 second indoor PR and your takeaway is "Sub 15 will not happen"...were you born this way or his life just kicked you one too many times?
I looked briefly and found that in the history of the world I could only find 3 women who have run a faster 5k indoors than Katelyn Tuohy and accomplished that feat at a younger age. These are Meseret Defar, Tirunesh Dibaba and Yasemin Can. Please check me on this, perhaps there are more.
This is not all that informative because 5000m indoor is run so rarely (and was run even less in earlier times) and nowadays the indoor tracks are as fast as outdoor, so one should better compare outdoor marks or all marks, regardless of in/outdoor.
Current Tuohy is very good but not outlier good as she herself was at 15-16 (or e.g. Budd at 18 (8:28/14:48), Klosterhalfen at 20 (3:59/8:29/14:51) and several Africans were).
I think some fans got carried away with dubious speculations from XC but the naysayers are also exaggerating because there just isn't enough data for predictions.
Yes. Precisely the point. The indoor 5k is run very rarely - so you can't really draw any conclusions about an athlete's future potential from the indoor 5k, especially in the NCAA where winning is everything and races are anything but time trials. It's telling that Jenny B. Simpson could possibly have been the best US 5k runner ever if she wanted to, was the national champion once, but didn't break 15 in college while setting the NCAA outdoor record.
So all of those college guys will break 13 minutes later in the season I guess. Nice. I look forward to it. And those women in the 3000 who ran 8:50 will run 8:40 also. Nice. Or is it just Tuohy who needs excuses? Nobody else will improve as much? Always the case when Tuohy fans are talking.
So all of those college guys will break 13 minutes later in the season I guess. Nice. I look forward to it. And those women in the 3000 who ran 8:50 will run 8:40 also. Nice. Or is it just Tuohy who needs excuses? Nobody else will improve as much? Always the case when Tuohy fans are talking.
Well put. The "tired from all the running this year" line is a tuohy fanclown classic.
She did not need excuses leaving your new favorite in the dust. Twice.
We have been seeing variations of this thread for five years. Every time Tuohy has a perceived down race the dumb vultures come calling. They are wrong every time, but delusions diehard.
Anyway if you think an athlete would not be worn down after the craziness of winning the national title and the whirlwind that followed it (nol deals, etc) just two weeks prior, ok. Although look up what happened to Simpson at xc nationals in 2009. Meanwhile she still ran one of the fastest 200m track times in ncaa history. As long as she is healthy Simpsons record is in real jeopardy from here on out.
Look at the BU meet 3 days ago. The record board were rewritten. The guys killed it in the 5000. The women killed it in the 3000. Tuohy killed it in the 5000. That is just her limit. No excuses. She just isn't as good as we all thought. No shame in that.
It's rare that this late in the season we get a runaway victor in the "Dumbest of Letsrun" posts but congrats you have taken the cake. Watching someone on the track after a long cross season in which the won a championship while slightly injured (running away from whomever you were rooting for) who then goes out and drops a 15 second indoor PR and your takeaway is "Sub 15 will not happen"...were you born this way or his life just kicked you one too many times?
I think we should all give KT credit for being a bad ass and an accomplished strong runner, she’s very impressive. But please stop w the “slightly injured” or constantly putting an asterisk next to anything she does because she was “running through injury” Do you have ANY clue as to how many of these athletes are always slightly injured?? In the 4 years my kid has been in the NCAA I don’t think she’s ever felt 100% perfect without something small nagging…. It’s the sport - stop trying to make Tuohy special because she runs through stuff. They ALL do. Pros and collegiate alike.
Great I acknowledged that. My point Is the fanatics on here constantly use it as proof of how great she is or as an excuse/asterisk - the athletes getting 2-50th etc are just as tough and running through pain or slight injury or coming off the flu but it’s not constantly talked about. Tuohy is special but NOT because of any ability to run while slightly injured. Everyone does that. I also see that reasoning w some of the crazy die hards for her is fruitless.. so peace out
34 MILLION 🤯 is the amount of people that interacted with the videos from katelyn tuohy fans channel in the last 365 days.
I hope Ray Flynn asked for a really big $ for KT's NIL deal with adidas because this number is just from a fan account and its crazy high, imagine what her stats are on her instagram with almost 100k followers.